HEART-KILLING CONSOLATION
State fair deep-fried consolation for those whose teams lost this weekend: the Texas State Fair, where you can eat the death-row food of those who don’t want to make it down the hall to Ol’ Sparky, batter-fried bacon. There’s also this quote, which may summarize all you may need to know and never understand about state fair cuisine:
“This is the Chocolate-covered Strawberry Waffle Ball. It’s a plump fresh strawberry dipped in chocolate and then covered in sweet waffle batter and then deep-fried. Makes perfect sense.”
No, no it doesn’t, sir. Not in the least.
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gerry dorsey says:
let the record show that the chocolate covered strawberry waffle balls are also served on a stick. and as you all know, everything is better when served on a stick.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:17 am
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TIGERinATL says:
You have coach Fulmer’s full attention.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:21 am
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Flatlander says:
wow. And all I had at Nebraska fair was gyros and giant corn dogs. I feel so…inadequate.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:38 am
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oc phil says:
The new horror at this year’s Orange County fair (though I’m sure it has been in Big 10 country awhile) was deep fried White Castles.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:03 am
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SEC Supremacist says:
@2
Mangino’s trying to figure out how to beat him to it. Luckily he has on his speedy velour tracksuit.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:05 am
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blon57 says:
After all the alcohol and food before the Oil Bowl (UT vs. OU- in case those of you SECers and Big 11ers don’t know), this sign sums it up. The Cotton Bowl people know their audience.
http://img397.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cottonbowlzw6.jpg
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:07 am
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WhiteSpeedReceiver says:
Amateurs.
http://wcco.com/entertainment/chocolate.covered.bacon.2.753746.html
That’s right, chocolate covered bacon and a pound of bacon fried and carmelized with maple syrup.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:12 am
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jester says:
Thanks Wanny…now I have to eat this crap.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:15 am
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Digital Headbutt says:
They’re actually deep frying fruit now? Health Nazis.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:16 am
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P. Fulmer says:
Gimme 3 dozen.
To go.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:22 am
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Brian says:
I think that makes some sense because strawberries and/or chocolate commonly appear on waffles. This is just an all-in-one version of such. Its not like its deep fried spaghetti and cucumbers…which until now did not exist.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:27 am
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now_a_hoo says:
As someone from the upper (literate) south, I thought the residents of the deep dirty dirty were the national standard setters for fried food. Then I went to the Iowa State Fair a few weeks ago.
Dear. Gawd.
After seeing the butter cow and butter shawn johnson, there was nothing to do but eat and watch others eat. Glorious/heartbreaking/I think I have diabeetus. If you’ve never been, go.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:35 am
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gerry dorsey says:
texas had a butter elvis last year.
just sayin’
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:41 am
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diamondm says:
I guess it’s un-Texan of me to say that my favorite thing to get at the Texas State Fair is still good old fashioned roasted corn on the cob — no batter, no frying — although it does have plenty of butter.
I don’t understand why I can’t recreate the same corn on the cob at home. I have to wait a year to get the stuff.
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:10 pm
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SpartanDan says:
WSR – did they still have the deep-fried Snickers-bar-on-a-stick? Or the five-pound buckets of chocolate chip cookies?
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
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WhiteSpeedReceiver says:
#15-
Not only do we still have the deep fried candy bars and 5 lbs. buckets of chocolate chip cookies (within staggering distance of all the milk you can drink for 50 cents), but we also now have deep fried reubens on a stick and deep fried twinkies.
Just think about that last one for a second. Not only is it deep fried (and will help you die early), but it’s something that’ll take 50,000 years to decompose while in your stomach.
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:39 pm
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now_a_hoo says:
I’ll vouch for the deep-fried twinkies. They also taste vaguely like fake banana flavoring, which I had a hard time wrapping my brain around.
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
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IVSPORT says:
I would eat every deep-fried food mentioned so far without hesitation. I’m no athlete, I’ve got metabolism on my side and posting comments to sports blogs requires no physical exertion whatsoever. So pass me another deep fried snickers bar please.
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
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Nate says:
That woman judge in the chef’s jacket needs to cut her smoking down to about 4 packs a day. “These people love fried food as much as I do”–yes, Ma’am, it’s obvious that you love fried foods.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:16 pm